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Chapter 8...
My green eyes scouted the area. I couldn't help but feel scared. It was dark, with hardly any moon to cast light. Most people would probably consider it a beautiful night, black sky, new moon, not a star or planet in sight, you know. I was keeping watch, and sort of wandered far. My shoes crunched against the years and years of undergrowth. I heard a voice, a human voice. Not far off either. Coming closer in fact. And if I wasn't scared to begin with, which I was, I sure was now. Okay, I was about to freak'n piss my pants. I could hear the leaves rustle from footsteps. My heart pounded. Branches not far off swayed. I was frozen to the spot.
They were closer, yards away. I blindly reached for a kunai. Two yards away. I clenched it with all of my might as my blood spilled out of my hand. One yard away. Defensively, I raised my kunai-wielding hand as if to stab whomever. Just as I was about to, a strong hand caught my wrist.
"Kid, chill out!" a female voice said as a girl, older than me with short blonde hair came into my view.
It was Nara Cho. I knew her since both our moms were good friends and also she was Tashi-kun's older sister. She wasn't alone however, not far behind her came Nai Li and her older brother Yoru.
"Nai Li!" I shouted, and tears filled my eyes. I ran to hug her.
"What happened, Hina?" she asked me softly. I smiled gently. For some reason, I always felt I had to act gentle and light around her. Probably because she's so soft spoken and fragile-looking.
"It's a long story," I heaved a sigh.
"We have a forever." Cho said truthfully.
"Where's Cho's brother, wasn't he with you?" Yoru asked, frowning.
"Who cares about Tashi?" Cho scoffed.
"Miss Oh-Yoru-My-Dear-Brother-Is-Missing-And-I-Must-Save-Him."Yoru answered her with a smirk.
"Shut up." Cho snapped, glaring.
"Don't forget, you owe me a favor now."
"Yeah, whatever." She said turning away from him.
So I explained to them our situation, from Rai to the poison darts to Tashi and whatnot. Cho kept quiet and listened intently. Yoru looked as if he was deep in thought, I could tell Nai Li was paying strict attention as well. I finished up and told them that Tashi had no idea I was pretending.
"No offense," Yoru said, "But you shouldn't keep things like that from your teammates.
"Okay, so what do you suggest we do?" I asked irritated.
"Just confront this Rai and kick his ass into next week." He said shortly. When he said it, he made it sound so simple, I felt heat come to my face.
"Don't worry," Cho assured me, "He does it to me all the time, it's a favorite past time of his."
"What is?" Yoru asked her.
"Making people feel embarrassed they didn't think of something earlier." She answered matter-
of-factually.
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Shiro...
I led Kimiko and Yutaka into the forest.
"The Hokage said this way." I said and pointed south.
Kimiko nodded curtly. Yutaka took off without a word said. Kimiko hesitated, as if she was waiting for something.
"After you." I said smiling and gestured off toward Yutaka. She nodded and leapt after Yutaka. I followed, my face flushed. 'Why the hell am I blushing?' I thought embarrassed, 'All I did was say two words to Kimiko-chan. WHAT!?!?!?!?! Since when did I say 'chan' at the end of her name?' I spent the next hour and a half arguing with myself about Kimiko.
"ARRGGHH!" I said aloud, "I'm just stupid, I give up."
"What'd you say, Shiro-kun?" Kimiko called, looking back at me.
I felt limp with embarrassment. I probably looked like a complete loony shouting things to myself. I sighed but then remembered Kimiko was waiting for me to answer.
"N-nothing. Sorry." I called back. Great, now I sounded like my mom, stuttering like some shy freak. (A/N: I have nothing against shy people.) I hurried to catch up.
After about six hours of sprinting, I was exhausted. Instantly, I sat down on the forest floor. Kimiko plopped down next to me, and Yutaka leaned against a tree maybe three yards away.
"That was some run, huh?" Kimiko asked gasping for air.
I nodded and began to drink from the water bottle I stashed in my pocked. After several gulps, I felt so much better.
"Here." I said and held it out to her.
"Thanks." Kimiko said and gratefully took it.
"Hey Yutaka, you want some water?" I asked when she handed it back to me.
"No thanks," he said in monotone, "I can extract moisture from the insects within my body."
A shiver ran down my spine. Admit it, that's pretty creepy. Kimiko, however, didn't seem weirded out by this. Then the thought hit me that they had been teammates as genins and was most likely used to him doing that.
"Let's stay here for the night." Kimiko said, lying back.
"Why here?" I asked, also lying back, gazing upon the dark sky.
"I like it here."Kimiko smiled, "It seems peaceful and, and..."
She paused. "And what?" I prompted her gently.
"I don't know, safe." She said into the sky.
I see anything special about it.
"..." Yutaka said looking around.
Kimiko shrugged and closed her eyes. I sat back up. "Hey, Yutaka," I called, "I'll take first watch if you want."
"..." He said again and laid down on the ground.
"Byakugan!" I muttered and my vision began to change. My white eyes grew in size, the veins on my forehead grew and popped out, shaping my skin. My vision turned a silvery white. I could see the chakra pulsing through my teammates' sleeping bodies.
I began to weave though the trees. Of course my physical body remained sitting by Kimiko-chan. I went farther and farther. Then, maybe five miles off, I sensed a small amount of chakra. I went further, I made out a body structure, blue chakra pulsed through it. As I went closer, I could make out their face. It was a man. About a couple inches taller than I, with silver hair. Narrowing in, I saw that he had only a bulging pouch around his waist, probably full of kunais. Other than that, he was unarmed. Taking note to his direct path, I saw that he wasn't headed in out direction, the way he was going.
I continued to follow him with my byakugan just in case. Suddenly, he did a jutsu and I felt a sudden drain of my energy. I strained to keep the byakugan activated. My chakra was practically gone. How could this have happened? I had the chakra to use my byakugan for at least another couple hours. Using my last drop of energy, the byakugan flickered off. Back in my physical body, I slumped over, so exhausted that I barely managed to stay sitting. The last thing I saw was Kimiko's calm, pretty brown eyes and her soft touch on my face before I completely shut down.
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Images flashed in front of my eyes. Some of the things I recognized, some I didn't. Then, the strangest feeling came over me, like tons and tons of pressure pushing against me. At first I couldn't breathe. Pain ran through my body, could feel every bone in my body break, and every blood vessel pop. Except, when I managed to open a single eye, my whole body was perfectly intact.
'I'm just having an out of body experience.' I assured myself, put the pain was just so real. I tried to get a grip, I really did. I let out a scream and tears sprang to my eyes. My hands fisted so tight, my nails dug into my palms, I bit my lip until it bled. IT JUST WOULD NOT STOP.
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Kimiko...
I'm a calm person by nature, I hardly ever lose it and just freak out. But ever since we entered this forest, I've felt super jumpy. When I finally managed to shut my eyes with out shooting them open again, thinking something was creeping up on me, I heard Shiro let out a moan. As soon I got up to help him, he was unconscious. It wasn't long after that, that he began to twitch painfully and let out screams. I shook his shoulders and gently called his name. He just moaned louder. Thinking fast I leaped up and grabbed his water bottle still sitting in the middle of our pitiful camp and dumped all of it remains on Shiro's face.
It worked instantly. His white eyes shot open and he sputtered and sat up.
"You okay there?" I asked as he whipped his dripping face on his sleeve.
"Yeah, but I had the weirdest dream." he replied uncertainly.
"Do tell." I said sitting down myself.
"Well, I was searching the area with my byakugan and saw this guy."
"In the dream?" I asked.
"No, before, and I followed him with my vision."
"And?" I prompted him.
"He did a really fast jutsu and all of my chakra went away."
I felt the edges of my mouth turn down, "How?"
"I have no idea, I think it was the jutsu he did though."
"I've never heard of a jutsu that can just suck chakra out of someone from so far off. I mean, how did he even know you were watching him?" I asked and gave him my serious face.
He just shook his head.
"Sorry! No more interuptions." I promised and he continued.
"Okay, then I went unconscious and I felt like I was being crushed by something really heavy and, well, it really hurt."
I felt pretty scared honestly, this weird guy who can drain people's chakra and and give them dreams from miles away. Poor Shiro, I really felt sorry for him.
"I can take watch for you..." I began to offer.
"In order for him to do the same to you, no way! No freaking way!" Shiro shouted and grabbed my hand.
His hand was shaking and he looked even paler than usual. I gripped his hand tighter.
"Are you okay?" I asked feeling my level of calmness drop suddenly.
He looked at me with terrified white eyes, "Yeah." he said, I could tell he was trying to control the shaking in his voice, but it was to avail.
"Look, Shiro you're shaking why don't you take some time out, you know, get a little R and R?"
He shook his head, "No, Kimiko, it's fine."
"No it's not fine!" I shouted, "You're, like, having a breakdown or something, how is that fine?"
"It's fine." he said clenching his jaw.
"You're not though, do I look like an idiot or something?" I said back, kind of loud I guess since Yutaka woke up. Oops.
"What the hell are you two yelling about? You sound like a married couple, God, what do I have to do just to get some sleep?" He asked turning over.
"Yutaka get your lazy ass up." Shiro said running a hand through his blonde hair. My jaw just about dropped, I was shocked I didn't notice it before, but Shiro was so cute, his hair was messy and his eyes were pale white and looked endless. I blinked just in case I wasn't seeing something right. Shiro still looked the same.
"Whaat do you waant?" Yutaka moaned, sitting up.
Shiro told him everything.
"Who do you think this freak is?" I asked.
"I doubt that's the last time we'll see him, whoever he is." Shiro said half-smiling at me.
"Okay, new plan, "Yutaka began, "No more night watches, we all stay up 24/7 just in case this maniac shows up we can all fight him."
"Sounds good."
"You're only saying that so that you won't have to sleep." I said irritated.
"So?" he asked giving me an odd look.
"Hmph."
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Cho...
We we walking along just fine, untill it started raining.
"Great, precipitation. Just when I thought this night couldn't possibly get better." Yoru replied with bitter sarcasm.
Suddenly, the ground below us gave away as we, all four of us fell into an eight foot hole, dug into the ground. Taking care not to re-break my ankle I lean forward and landed on my hands and knees, painlessly. Mostly.
"Looks like it just did." Hina replied scowling.
"This sucks." Yoru said, I could tell by his super tense body that he was pissed.
I walked over to him and gently placed my hand on his shoulder, "Yoru..."
But he never really let me finish as he responded by grabbing my wrist and yanking me closer.
"You know, you don't always have to be Supergirl and handle every problem."
"What do you mean?" I asked, but of course I did know what her meant, it's not like I don't speak English, but still.
Obviously he thought so too, "You know what I mean."
"No, I'm pretty sure I don't, and if it's all the same to you, could you please let go of my wrist, I think I'm losing circulation."
I pulled my wrist away but he gripped it tighter and glared at me.
I glanced over at Hina and Nai Li, "Help." I pleaded.
Nai Li came to my rescue, "Yoru, let go of her now." She even pryed his fingers of me when he ignored her, brave girl, I could have hugged her.
"Well, I said turning my attention to the eight foot pit, "This would be an excellent time for one of us to discover they could fly."
Hina and Nai Li could only nod in agreement.
End
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